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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Rice names anti-Semitism adviser
Condoleezza Rice will name a senior adviser on anti-Semitism.
The U.S. secretary of state is due to announce the appointment on Wednesday morning of Gregg Rickman as her senior adviser on anti-Semitism, JTA has learned.
The position stems from 2004 legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) that expanded State Department monitoring of anti-Semitism.
Rickman, for years a top Republican congressional aide, wrote a book about his years in the 1990s directing the Senate Banking Committee’s investigation of the role the Swiss Banks played in the Holocaust.
His job will be to make sure bilateral relations with other nations and international organizations address any concerns about anti-Semitism.
Azeris to open Israel Embassy ‘shortly’
Azerbaijan will open an embassy in Israel, a Jewish Azeri legislator said.
Yevda Abramov told Baku Today that the issue was raised last month when Azeri President Ilham Aliyev visited Washington and met with Jewish leaders. Aliyev pledged to open an embassy “shortly,” Baku Today said.
Israel has had an embassy in the largely Muslim former Soviet republic since 1993. Azerbaijan has resisted opening an embassy with Israel because of Azerbaijan’s good relations with neighboring Iran.
Politician against U.S. money for withdrawal
A New York politician is working to make sure U.S. funds won’t go toward an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
Dov Hikind made the comments this week while visiting Israel, according to an article on the Ynet Web site.
“It is absurd that the American taxpayers should fund a plan that will ethnically cleanse an area of Jews by expelling tens of thousands of Jews from their homes,” Hikind said.
It’s unclear whether any U.S. money would go to support Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s promised West Bank withdrawal.
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